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1. Answer the questions:

1. What was Karl Benz’s profession?

2. Who was his father?

3. Whom did Karl Benz found his first company with?

4. Did the enterprise go first year very well?

5. How were the difficulties in business overcome?

6. When did Karl Benz finish his two-stroke engine?

7. He was granted a patent for it, wasn’t he?

8. What other inventions did Karl Benz patent?

9. Why were spouses Benz forced to incorporate the joint-stock company Gasmotoren Fabrik Mannheim?

10. When was a new company producing industrial machines founded?

11. Who were Benz’s partners in this company?

12. What type of automobile did Karl Benz create in 1885?

13. What was the name of his creation?

14. Benz began to sell this vehicle in the late summer of 1888, didn’t he?

15. When did Karl Benz design the first truck in history?

16. What kind of engine was Benz granted a patent in 1896 for?

18. Why were the automobiles of the Daimler-Benz company named Mercedes Benz?

19. What is the logo of Mercedes Benz automobiles?

20. What does it mean?

2. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:

1. Karl Benz was a British electrical engineer.

2. He was the son of an engineer.

3. Benz attended the Karlsruhe grammar school and later the Karlsruhe Polytechnic University.

4. In 1881 Karl Benz founded his first company with partner Emil Jellinek.

5. His wife was a designer by profession.

7. 6. The spouses have five daughters.

8. Karl Benz created a gas four-stroke engine on December 31, 1878.

9. Benz soon patented the speed regulation system, the ignition using white power sparks with battery, the spark plug, the carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, and the water radiator.

10. The success of the company gave Benz the opportunity to continue designing of an electric car.

11. The early-1888 version of the Motorwagen had no gears.

12. It was Karl Benz who made his famous trip driving one of the vehicles a great distance.

13. During the last years of the nineteenth century, Benz was the most expensive automobile company in the world.

14. In 1926 Benz & Cie and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) finally merged as the Daimler-Benz company and gave the model of the DMG automobiles the name Mercedes Benz.

13. The name of DMG model was given in honour of the Benz’s daughter.

14. A new logo of Mercedes Benz was created by Emil Jellinek.

15. The Benz’s house is used as an automobile museum.

Grammar in Focus

1. Compare the translation of the sentences. Pay attention to the different forms of the Passive Voice:

1. The experiment was completed a month ago.

2. The chief’s plans had been changed by the beginning of the negotiations.

3. The explanation of this fact hasn’t been given yet.

4. New theories will have been developed by our team before the project starts.

5. The documents are being signed now.

6. New theories are developed very often.

7. In 1896 Karl Benz was granted a patent for his design of the first flat engine.

8. The text will be translated tomorrow.

9. Many new books had been published by this scientist before he got the Noble Prize.

10. This theory has been just developed.